The Merkle root summarizes all transactions within the block, linking them cryptographically to ensure any change to the public ledger can be easily detected. In Bitcoin, each transaction ...

All of these guarantees are provided by three simple technical building blocks: private/public key cryptography, merkle trees, and hash algorithms. Every Bitcoin block is just some extra necessary ...

Since pretty near the very beginning of Bitcoin, most developers actively involved in Bitcoin Core have wanted ... except instead of it working like P2SH (where you hash the script, or in MAST’s case, ...